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Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by bigbugbag »

deepuj wrote: post #322

This is depressing. Trello is a beloved software for a lot of people. It's sad that Trello decided to sell off to Atlassian. I can't believe the same company that makes Jira is going to run Trello. SourceTree is the only software that they make that doesn't suck.

Sadly this is more often than not the destiny of service and software you can't host/run yourself. At least this is not google or the like buying something to can it. Though it would not be surprising if trello got merged or integrated in some way in jira.

Luckily there are free software alternatives to trello you can self host that are not going to sell out such as wekan[1], taskboard[2], taiga[3], kanboard[4], ...

[1]: https://wekan.io/

[2]: https://taskboard.matthewross.me/

[3]: http://taiga.pm/

[4]: https://kanboard.net/

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by jonno123 »

edraferi wrote: post #300
chinhodado wrote: post #283

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And don't even get me started on SourceTree. Just about every release since 1.5.2 is a disaster, to the point of almost non-usable right now.

Really? I'm pretty happy with it. Definitely better than Github desktop, and more full featured than the light git extensions you find in most editors. What Git GUI do you prefer?

I'm a big fan of SmartGit http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by jonno123 »

edraferi wrote: post #300
chinhodado wrote: post #283

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And don't even get me started on SourceTree. Just about every release since 1.5.2 is a disaster, to the point of almost non-usable right now.

Really? I'm pretty happy with it. Definitely better than Github desktop, and more full featured than the light git extensions you find in most editors. What Git GUI do you prefer?

I'm a big fan of SmartGit http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by Lordarminius »

solipsism wrote: post #662
zoom6628 wrote: post #654

Very happy for the folks at Trello. Great outcome for a great tool. Seems lots of JIRA-haters in the comments but lets get back and look at this event. The folks at Fog Creek brought us FogBugz, Stackoverflow, Trello. We should celebrate their success because its events like this that create the motivation for some of us to go create something that "stands on their shoulders" or competes with them or creates some new…

Hmm... How long does a company have to be around until it's no longer considered a start-up?

> How long does a company have to be around until it's no longer considered a start-up?

My simple personal guide is: when it has been around for more than 2 years, has found a viable business strategy or is certain to be around for 4 more years.

There is a discussion on this question here: https://www.quora.com/When-does-a-startup-stop-being-a-start...

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by Vinkekatten »

thijsvandien wrote: post #399
chinhodado wrote: post #283

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And don't even get me started on SourceTree. Just about every release since 1.5.2 is a disaster, to the point of almost non-usable right now.

In case you missed it, Tower ( https://www.git-tower.com – not affiliated) recently got a Windows version. It doesn't have the same level of quality as the Mac version yet (which I've been using for years) but it's improving rapidly and I expect it to be production ready within a couple of months. It's taking relatively long to port because thankfully it is made a native Windows application. Not free, but well worth…

Cool, thanks for the tip. I've been eyeing Tower for a long time, but us being a windows/linux shop it's not been a contender until now.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by AnnoyingSwede »

Not the biggest fan of Atlassian (but an admin for 10 years). I am trying to figure out what product to use for project management, and what path Atlassian will take.

They started with Jira Agile, which became Jira Software where you could plan agile sprints. Assuming this was the future i was a bit surprised to see Portfolio pop up, but i am assuming this project will be shut down at some point in favor of a new Trello for Jira? Or?

We currently bought Softwareplants BigPicture & BigPicture Enterprise, but also played with TempoTeam Planner.

I see both Trello and Atlassian's CEO being here, please let you loyal customers know what your intentions are so we can plan for our futures.

To clarify: My largest fear is not that they screw up Trello, but that once more developing resources we pay ever doubling license-fees for will be reallocated to making sure Trello works well with the rest of the stack, and becomes a big seller.

It's all about new bells and whistles with Atlassian, while we the end-users are begging for bugfixes or feature-requests for decades. This is clearly reflected in not patching bugs in current version but instead force users to upgrade, while sometimes losing functionality we loved just to keep the application safe.

Jonas

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by [deleted] »

zeroer wrote: post #668
solipsism wrote: post #662

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Hmm... How long does a company have to be around until it's no longer considered a start-up?

I think a good definition of what a startup is would consider rate of growth (now and projections into the near future) rather than length of time since inception.

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Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by axtscz »

cyberferret wrote: post #637
axtscz wrote: post #609

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Gitkraken is amazing

Except that they have recently done an about turn on their licensing, and what used to be a FREE product is now a charge for product. No problems with paying for a product, but the way they went about the switch left a sour taste, so I went back to SourceTree.

Fair enough, I'm only using it for personal projects, so I can see how that'd be annoying.

Re: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

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Post by AnnoyingSwede »

toyg wrote: post #204
wattt wrote: post #154

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They will JIRA-fy it or kill it. I use JIRA and pay for it, it is hell on earth for teams of 2-5. We looked into switching to trello to reduce overhead but... It cost more for less features. So we stayed with JIRA. They will kill trello so everyone is stuck with JIRA. Someone please make a trello clone with reasonable pricing, now!

> They will JIRA-fy it or kill it. Atlassian is not Oracle. I had fears for BitBucket when they bought it, but they seem to have left it alone for the most part. Sourcetree, on the other hand, got fucked up. How much of that was a strategic decision and how much just plain incompetence (either by Atlassian or the original team), I don't really know.

Bitbucket has been a bit Atlassified a bit.. Hipchat plugins are at the root of the system and it's just a question of time before they require hip-chat to be there for some functionality to work. Don't believe me?

An example of this was the integration of HipChat in confluence. Product was fine but now requires HipChat X amount of plugins to be installed (to be able to insert Emojicon's in Confluence, using confluence own menu's).

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